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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Types Of Employee Selection Tests

Selection test is a systematic process that includes different aspects of tests. Different types of selection tests may be administered depending on the company jobs are described below:

1. Intelligence Test

Intelligence test is used to judge the mental ability of the candidates. It measures the general ability of understanding the things, learning and decision-making

2. Aptitude Test

It measures the probability of performing the job in terms of how often and how well. Moreover, this helps to measure the potential learning capacity of a candidate. It is the most promising indicator of predicting worker's ability for potential development. Organizations develop some specific aptitude tests in order to measure special abilities to perform a job.

3. Personality Test

It is the measurement of personal characteristics of the candidates. It is also known as personality inventory which measures the personality traits such as interpersonal competence, self-confidence, ability to lead, emotional stability motivation, consciousness and so on. Personality test is used to measure a prospective employee's motivational level and qualities of the personality as a whole.

4. Interest Test

It is used to discover a candidate's activity preferences. The personal interests such as like and dislikes are identified by interest test. It identifies the patterns of interest that an individual holds.

5. Situational Test

It is all about evaluating whether the particular person is situation specific. It means, under situational test, it is drilled whether the candidate performs the job in future, in a situation if he/she is selected. It evaluates whether a particular candidate can perform the job in a given situation.

6. Honesty Test

Honesty is concerned with the degree of accuracy of information provided by the candidate. Honesty test measures to what extent the information provided by the prospective candidates is accurate.